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Posted: 8/11/2011 3:31:18 PM EDT
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Local sale, .45 Colt Rossi, asking price 375.00
Worth it?  
Thanks in advance RLS |
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Assuming the action it good, the chamber and internals are good and the barrel is good, then I think its a fair price. You may have to slug the barrel to see what diameter 45 slugs it likes. Some of the Rossis have bores on the large side and like .454" dia lead bullets. |
to the range tomorrow
Good purchase. Fine rifles, and only get better with use. Oh, and they are fun 
I have two in .44Mag myself; 16" carbine, 20" Short Rifle. ETA: that looks like a half octagon barrel? Older model minus the stupid safety?I would also plug the rear dovetail with a blank from Brownells. |
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Good purchase. Fine rifles, and only get better with use. Oh, and they are fun
I have two in .44Mag myself; 16" carbine, 20" Short Rifle. ETA: that looks like a half octagon barrel? Older model minus the stupid safety?I would also plug the rear dovetail with a blank from Brownells. Yes, half octagon, no safety, and Had every intention of pluging the slot. Being an older model, other than the lack of a sfety, any thing I need to know? Now, a day later, the same guy posts a Marlin 1894 in .44 mag for sale. No mention of it yesterday when I picked up this....kinda bummed 
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I have two Rossi 92's, both early 1990's Interarms-imported guns, one a standard saddle-ring carbine and one, like yours, a half-round, half-octagon rifle, both in .45 colt. The half-Rd, half-Oct rifle was only made for a few years and in limited numbers.
I shoot a 300-gr hard cast gas check over a stout load of H110 in both guns, it seems to be an accurate and powerful load. Never had a problem with the carbine, but with the rifle the mag tube had a tendency to walk forward with the recoil. After ten rounds or so the tube would push out an inch or so past the muzzle, knocking the barrel band front sight askew and changing my point of impact. The plug screw at the end of the mag tube is the only thing holding the tube in place, and it snugs into a shallow dimple on the underside of the barrel, just behind the muzzle. I deepened the dimple and put in a slightly longer screw, and d&t'd a 8-40hole in the barrel band and used a 8-40 scope mount plug screw as a sort of set screw to hold the band in place. It has held without budging for almost 200 rounds of the heavy load now. Current guns, IIRC, use a mag tube threaded into the receiver to avoid the mag tube shifting forward under recoil. |
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I have two Rossi 92's, both early 1990's Interarms-imported guns, one a standard saddle-ring carbine and one, like yours, a half-round, half-octagon rifle, both in .45 colt. The half-Rd, half-Oct rifle was only made for a few years and in limited numbers. I shoot a 300-gr hard cast gas check over a stout load of H110 in both guns, it seems to be an accurate and powerful load. Never had a problem with the carbine, but with the rifle the mag tube had a tendency to walk forward with the recoil. After ten rounds or so the tube would push out an inch or so past the muzzle, knocking the barrel band front sight askew and changing my point of impact. The plug screw at the end of the mag tube is the only thing holding the tube in place, and it snugs into a shallow dimple on the underside of the barrel, just behind the muzzle. I deepened the dimple and put in a slightly longer screw, and d&t'd a 8-40hole in the barrel band and used a 8-40 scope mount plug screw as a sort of set screw to hold the band in place. It has held without budging for almost 200 rounds of the heavy load now. Current guns, IIRC, use a mag tube threaded into the receiver to avoid the mag tube shifting forward under recoil. Thanks for the input. I notice that when I hold my 92 just right in the light, you can see the "shadow" of the Star of Texas on the right hand side of the buttstock(second picture) ...any ideas RLS |
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The Rossi '92s can handle any 45 Colt load you're brave enough to load up. They also sell a 454 Casull version using the same action. But I believe the 454 Casull 92's are heat treated differently According to Glen Ruh at Legacy Sports International the metallurgy and heat treatment on the 454 Casull 92's had been modified to handle the high pressure, 65,000 psi. |
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